Originally Posted by redleader,May 25 2005, 10:35 PM

so, I went to Saks Fifth Avenue today and bought a Prada handbag for my girlfriend's bday. It cost about $550. Later I went online i found the same handbag from an online retailer for less than $200. At first I thought it was a fake, but no, its the real thing. i found several other online retailers that sold it for that price. In fact, I found many retailers selling other designer bags for very cheap too, in many cases, less than half the price of the store. So I'm wondering, how come these online retailers sell them for so cheap, how are they able to do so and did I get totally ripped off purchasing from a major dept. store?